Today my page views are about 1/3 lower than usual. What happened?

I've been slowly going up the scale with my page views, to the point where my daily views are usually close to 350 total per day. All of a sudden today it began dropping, and is now down to 241.Is that normal? I can't find any message that there was a problem with my pages, and some of the pages going up in views. Also, I've had some Adsense clicks and Amazon referrals today, so it's not like it was totally cut off.I just get nervous after all the effort it took to get there, to see it suddenly drop like a rock. Am I doing something wrong?

If your previously most viewed hubs are written recently it may happen as the initial juice that Google provide doesn't stay longer. As your hubs get older it will go back to normal even better position.

Don't sweat it. As others have said, traffic comes and goes with no particular pattern.

Although I have hubs that do better on weekends and some that do better on weekdays overall there is little pattern to it. I've seen weeks at double my current rate (as with you it's low right now), but have learned it will come back.

It wasn't easy to keep from getting depressed or alarmed, but eventually I did. Sit back, relax and write another hub. It will pass.

Everybody's been so nice, I really appreciate the support. I'm not so panicked about it now. I did find a more concrete cause, though. Today I found an email that Xomba (one of my backlink sites) had suspended my account for duplicate content. I have no idea what, since I work hard to write something unique for every hub, but they blocked the account starting yesterday, coinciding exactly with my drop in visitors. At this point, 2 things can happen. They'll reinstate me, or they won't. I hope they do, because they've been effective for me. Either way, I'll continue to write hubs and try to (more carefully) promote them. Thanks again for all the support!

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